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Portugal Pfizer holds a prominent position in Portugal’s pharmaceutical landscape, especially in the hospital business and for COVID-19-related products, with the emphasis now on sustainable growth post-COVID. Paulo Teixeira, a 26-year pharma industry veteran, lays out his strategy for the affiliate and highlights some of the key challenges in Portugal’s healthcare…

Portugal Sérgio Alves describes the personal and professional factors that drove his return to Portugal, where he draws on enriching experiences gained from working in various European markets. He also discusses how AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine served as a jumping-off point for more wide-ranging discussions with governmental stakeholders, and the affiliate’s positive…

India India’s pharma industry has big dreams. At the recent Annual Summit of Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) the nation’s policymakers, academicians, industry leaders, innovators, and scientists gathered to set out their industry’s trajectory up to 2047. Based on discussions at the conference and a comprehensive new OPPI report,…

Global Dr Vivienne Marshall, senior director of the Center for Advanced Therapies at the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, part of BioBridge Global, outlines some of the major barriers to wider adoption of cell and gene therapies: complexity, variability, and the lack of robust standards. Dr Marshall also highlights the…

Portugal Speaking from Servier’s new open-plan office in Lisbon, a space aimed at promoting cross-functional integration and “collective intelligence,” experienced industry executive Frédéric Bengold looks back on three successful years at the helm of Servier Portugal and outlines his goals for the future. With a refreshed global visual identity and corporate…

Morocco   General Director Dr Aziz Mrabti discusses the Moroccan Medicines & Pharmacy Directorate (DMP)’s transition to an independent regulatory authority, highlighting its potential to enhance autonomy and international recognition. He also emphasizes Morocco’s commitment to supporting the growth of the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, both domestically and internationally, amid the…

Morocco Sanofi’s Adrien Delamare-Deboutteville describes the access to innovation landscape in Morocco today, how Sanofi is aiming to bolster access in line with the country’s universal healthcare transformation, and the lessons he took from his last position managing the company’s Ukraine operations as war broke out.   We want to be…

UAE A charismatic force at the forefront of the country’s health transformation efforts, Dr Amin Al Amiri currently serves as assistant undersecretary at the UAE Ministry of Health as well as chairman of the UAE Supreme National Blood Transfusion Committee. In conversation earlier this year at BIO2023, Dr Al Amiri touched…

UAE Drawing on a quarter of a century of pharmaceutical industry experience, over 20 years of which has been spent in the UAE, Ayman Mokhtar today heads up Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia operations for Viatris. A global healthcare company with a broad range of products, Viatris is continually working…

Morocco Pierre Fabre has been present in the Moroccan market for nearly 40 years. Pierre Behnam, the company’s director for Africa, Middle-East and Türkiye discusses its strategy for bringing innovation and targeted therapies to patients in Morocco.   I am confident that over time, with joint work between innovators and health…

Global After positions at Novartis and Merck, Bettina Bauer, a trained scientist, joined Gilead in 2019 as VP and general manager of its German affiliate. Today, as the VP of the company’s global commercial strategy and operations for HIV, COVID-19, and emerging viruses, she discusses the company’s strides in HIV prevention…

China After four years away, Brendan Shaw recently returned to China to attend the ChinaBio Innovation and Investment Conference in Suzhou. Although geopolitical tensions, the fallout from COVID-19, and local market challenges have dampened stakeholder optimism around China somewhat in the last few years, Shaw feels that the country still has…